Well it wasn’t turkey but tuna steaks and I couldn’t find the Christmas lights.
11/29/2003
I had a productive Thanksgiving and managed to get one big chore done. Since I bought the casa, I don’t have to move anymore. Guess what? Stuff just piles up and gets unruly. I started off Thanksgiving morning planning to get some of the clutter and paperwork sorted out. A bunch of hours later, I am more comfortable with me casa.
I dug through boxes of receipts, bundles of checking account stuff and folders o’junk. I managed to get 3 big garbage bags of stuff gathered up for the shredder and the fire. I decided to go ahead and toss the papers that didn’t have important information on them and then burn all the old critical records. I started the fire pit and started burning stuff. It felt good, I felt like I was releasing old demons and moving on. I just sat there watching the fire consume all the papers I shoved into the pit. Surreal in a cosmic way. It was calming and refreshing all in one emotion.
Once I got the fire done, I started looking for the Christmas lights. I used to keep them in the back of the barn along with the other Christmas decorations and the fake tree. I wondered out to the remodeled barn and could not find them. Hum, I will leave that to the weekend I thought to myself, I don’t feel like dragging the extension cord out just to turn on the lights. I managed to putter around a bit more and stopped and read some of my current book. Decided I was hungry around late afternoon and fired up the barbeque grill. I had tuna steaks on the grill, potatoes in the microwave and some corn for dinner. I like this idea of cooking for a change. I have kept it simple but I am refreshing my skills. I haven’t cooked much since I got to Texas. Going out to dinner is cheap here. You can get a good meal for 5-10 dollars and no dishes to clean. But I regress; I am going to have to learn how to live on a budget. Yup changes ahead for 2004.
I went to the office on Friday morning. I sauntered into work, chatted with a few tenants on the way and stopped and let Pixie out. I thought I was the only person in Austin that had to work on the day after Thanksgiving. Nope, there were a few others that were working but there was not much going on for the day. I snuck out of the office by 3:00 and headed back to the barn to look for those Christmas lights. I grabbed the ladder, I climbed up to the top, where the ceiling will be eventually, and looked around. I found my tree decorations (lots of Santa’s), my Santa that hangs on the door and a box of wooden Santa’s. No lights. Hum, I dug and pulled and moved the boxes. Alas I gave up and figure the accidentally got tossed during the remodel of the barn.
I headed off to the discount store for new lights. I managed to get some, but the selection was not that great. It will do for this year, I got them strung up, lit up the porch last night for the first night. Oh, I got some lighted candy canes for the garden. It looks good, but I do like the old set better. After 4 years of putting them up, I knew exactly how to hang them. Oh well a bit of a change never hurt me.
Off to Yoga class this afternoon and nothing else planned.
